Re: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 12:00:55 pm Robert Millan wrote: > Unless you're talking about GRUB modules, I think this is a bit off-topic. Probably, but it is logical that the discussion started here. > May I suggest you continue the discussion off the list? It's quite hard to > keep track of

Re: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
Unless you're talking about GRUB modules, I think this is a bit off-topic. May I suggest you continue the discussion off the list? It's quite hard to keep track of this list already because of the number of mails. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will de

RE: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 17:09 +0200 schrieb Javier Martín: > In order to load modules you have to be root, so don't you think that if > someone gets to the point he would be able to load modules in your > server the battle is already lost? It's a easy way to get a bit more security. A kernel

RE: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Javier Martín
El mar, 09-09-2008 a las 17:01 +0200, Felix Zielcke escribió: > Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 09:55 -0500 schrieb Greg White: > > > > Yes I am compiling my own kernel. I am compiling everything I need > > into the kernel. The policy (written by the previous admin) is to > > compile everything in

Re: [PATCH] Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:26PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > I don't think that this is enough since with bootcamp you can have a MBR > without a protective entry. Then it looks like an MSDOS partition map to me. Is this a normal use case, or something weird? Also, what do others (e.g. Linux) do?

RE: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 09:55 -0500 schrieb Greg White: > Yes I am compiling my own kernel. I am compiling everything I need > into the kernel. The policy (written by the previous admin) is to > compile everything in as the kernel runs faster and is more secure. > There is no =m in the .co

RE: grub and root=label=

2008-09-09 Thread Greg White
> On Monday 08 September 2008 9:26:54 pm Greg wrote: >>>As far as I know, the "root=" line is passed as one of the parameters to >>>the booting kernel, so it shouldn't matter what version of Grub you're >>>using. For instance, if you're running Linux, look at the Linux kernel >>>documentation for

Re: [BUG] Build system broken with i386.rmk

2008-09-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 15:21 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > The problem can be some different autoconf version or something like > that or wrong timestamps. Clean `svn co' works without problems, no files get regenerated. Though I noticed i386.rmk and x86_64-efi.rmk were missing in Makefile

Re: [BUG] Build system broken with i386.rmk

2008-09-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 15:06 +0200 schrieb phcoder: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Can you be more specific about what's wrong in svn? I believe ./autogen.sh > > should fix your local tree. > > > i386-pc.mk and common.mk are regenerated if necessary by make command > but i386.mk isn't. > Vladim

Re: [PATCH] Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-09 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:11AM +0200, phcoder wrote: >> Robert Millan wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: >> BTW GPT module checks the protective M

Re: [BUG] Build system broken with i386.rmk

2008-09-09 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:50:56AM +0200, phcoder wrote: >> Hello. I had conflicts in .mk files after "svn up" so I removed all the >> .mk. common.mk and i386-pc.mk were regenerated correctly but not i386.mk >> $ make >> conf/i386-pc.mk:3394: conf/i386.mk: No such file or dir

Re: grub 1.96 svn 20080813 and circular lvm2 metadata

2008-09-09 Thread Hans Lambermont
Felix Zielcke wrote on 20080903: > could you please address Marco's issues and send a new patch so the > topic is brought up again? Please find attached a new patch. I hope I managed to fix all remarks that were made ;-) If not then please let me know. This is intended for the Changelog : 2008-

Re: [BUG] Build system broken with i386.rmk

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:50:56AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Hello. I had conflicts in .mk files after "svn up" so I removed all the > .mk. common.mk and i386-pc.mk were regenerated correctly but not i386.mk > $ make > conf/i386-pc.mk:3394: conf/i386.mk: No such file or directory > make: *** No rule

Re: [PATCH] Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:11AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > >> Robert Millan wrote: > >>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when l

Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

2008-09-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 09.09.2008, 00:32 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:02:30AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > There seems to be now a increased git interest floating around ;) > > Gah, no that was just me porting a program to Multiboot, which happened to > be hosted on git ;